I think the keyboard brings out alter egos that are tongue in cheek sometimes. I don't for one minute believe that mttread was being serious when he says "yeah I posted it, but im not the original author so therefore technically I didn't actually say it, even though I repeated it. Which I obviously didn't..."
No indeed, I think he was, quite possibly, taking the piss out of those who object to a tongue in cheek poster taking the piss out of BREXITEERS.
I think also cos we are reduced to text on this forum it makes it harder for folks to accept that others may have a different point of view. Folks often post on a forum, or rather facebook or twitter, looking for others to agree with them. Many people ain’t looking for debate, they look online for re-enforcement of their own views. We’ve all signed up here cos we love bikes – but low and behold we don’t all share the same political views.
It's the same as when you try to discredit TR by his early misdemeanours.
For somebody to be discredited they would have to have some sort of credibility. A person who takes and uses as a pseudonym, the name of a ‘celebrated’ football hooligan, just never had and never will have any credibility, and that’s without going into his string of convictions, time in jail, as well trying to get paedophiles off the hook for his own perverted narcissistic publicity gain. As for the Oxford student union, they have made themselves look pretty stupid by offering him a platform.
For me BREXIT is the UK’s TRUMP moment. We are blaming the EU for a secession of governments over several decades that have represented first and foremost the 1% and screwed the rest of us.
It’s that and the new digital world we live in. Apparently, we have had enough of experts. The facts are lies – fake news, and the lies, like 350 million pounds a week for the NHS are the truth. And of course what will we do if we crash out of the EU without a deal and we all feel the pain – well, simple, people will blame the EU!